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Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah (Hebrew: שיר השירים רבה) is an aggadic midrash on Song of Songs, quoted by Rashi under the title "Midrash Shir ha-Shirim". [1] It is also called Aggadat Hazita, from its initial word "Hazita", [2] or Midrash Hazita. [3] [4]
It is based upon Genesis Rabbah 1 and Shir haShirim Rabbah on 5:11, according to which Aleph (א) complained before God that Bet (ב) was preferred to it, but was assured that the Torah of Sinai, the object of creation, would begin with Aleph (אנכי = Anochi = I am); [1] it, however, varies from the Midrash Rabbot. [1]
Midrash Rabba or Midrash Rabbah can refer to part of or the collective whole of specific aggadic midrashim on the books of the Torah and the Five Megillot, generally having the term "Rabbah" (רבה ), meaning "great," as part of their name. These midrashim are as follows: Genesis Rabbah; Exodus Rabbah; Leviticus Rabbah; Numbers Rabbah ...
Midrash halakha is the name given to a group of tannaitic expositions on the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. [42] These midrashim, written in Mishnaic Hebrew, clearly distinguish between the Biblical texts that they discuss and the rabbinic interpretation of that text. They often go beyond simple interpretation and derive or support halakha.
Yalkut Shimoni used it as a basis for its commentary on Shir haShirim, but also quotes it in the commentary to other Biblical books. [7] In Yalkut Shimoni, the name "Pesikta Rabbati" is used for Shir haShirim Rabbah, while Zutta is always referred to as "Midrash Shir haShirim." The author of Yalkut Shimoni may have applied this name to Rabbah ...
Ecclesiastes Rabbah or Kohelet Rabbah (Hebrew: קהלת רבה) is an aggadic commentary on Ecclesiastes, included in the collection of the Midrash Rabbot. It follows the biblical book verse by verse, only a few verses remaining without commentary.
This midrash was known to the author of Shemot Rabbah, and was used or cited in the following works among others: Lekach Ṭob by R. Tobias b. Eliezer , Ha-Roḳeaḥ by Eleazar ben Judah of Worms, Pa'aneach Raza, the Ketab Tamim by Moses Taku , the Kad ha-Kemach of Bahya ben Asher , a manuscript commentary by a grandson of R. Samuel of Speier ...
The core of the Pesikta is old and must be classed together with Genesis Rabbah and Lamentations Rabbah.But the proems in the Pesikta, developed from short introductions to the exposition of the scripture into more independent homiletic structures, as well as the mastery of form apparent in the final formulas of the proems, indicate that the Pesikta belongs to a higher stage of midrashic ...